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Rare « 
» Gems 

COMPILED BY 

George D. Free, A. M. 

—Author of— 

"A Popular Geography,' ' " History and Civil Gov- 
ernment/' "Marriage and Divorce," "History 
of Tennessee," "Citizens' Manual," Immi- 
gration," "Our Girls," Etc., Etc, 



"Imitate the best, not the worst J * 



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Come, read to me some poem, 

Some simple and heart-felt lay, 
That shall soothe this restless spirit, 

And banish the thoughts of day. — Longfellow. 



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DARROWVILLE, OHIO. 



Rare * 
• Gems 

COMPILED BY 

George I). Free, A. M. 

— Author of— 

"A Popular Geography, " " History and Civil, Gov- 
ernment " "Marriage and Divorce, " "History 
oe Tennessee," lt Citizens' Manual," Immi- 
gration, " "Our Girls," Etc., Etc, 



"Imitate the best, not the ivorst." 

Copyrighted, ISOf j;^ 1Q ]l 

Come, read to me some poem, ■ Ckg\ 

Some simple and he »rt-felt lav, 
I hat shall soothe this restless spirit, 

And banish the thoughts of day. — Longfellow. 



PRExSJ OP ^QNOOL PU BLUM I NQ QO., 
DARRO'A'\'ILL.E ; OHIO. 



**QONTENTS.**rp£„ 7 £ 

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Selections - - - 5-15 

The Village Blacksmith - - 16 

In The Celestial Observatory - Free. 17-18 

The Rainy Day - - - 1 ( J 

A Small Sweet Way - - 19-2U 

A Dime - - - - 2 ' 

APsalmofLfe - - - 21 

In School D^iys - - - 2*^-23 
The Eternal Goodness 

The Reaper and the Flowers - - 23-2-1 

For You . - . 25-16 

Women .... 2(5-2* 

Objects of Life - - - 27-28 

Learn to Do Well - - 29 

Speak Gently - - - 30-:]. 

r l he. Barefoot Boy - - - 31-33 

Be Kind to Mother - - - 3 3 I 
Home .-'--■- 35— '(J 

"TheySay" - 36-37 

The Agency Business - - 37-39 

The Jolly Old Pedagogue - - - 40-42 

The Dt ad Confederacy - 42-44 

Death - - - - - 45 

The Old School Exhibit on - - - 45-46 

The Old Home - - - - 4/ 

Truth - - - - - 48 

Have You Been to the World's Fair 48-49 

Home - - - 49-50 

Memory Gems, - - - 51-52 



1. A Sunday well spent brings a week of content. 

2. Trust when you can, but know y< ur man. 

8. How do you fool the world? By telling th; 
truth. 

4. Too much pudding will vomit a dog. Why ? 

5. Trust to Providence but lcck the store door. 
(J. A blin 1 man gets little good from a lantern. 

7. When Saian goes to prayer mischief is in the 

air. 

8. No legacy is so rich as intelligence and honesty. 

9. Ready money has the piok of the market. 

10. What the puppy learns the dog will do. 

11. Pers verance accomplishes more than precipi- 

t tion. 

12. To doubt is to think, and to think is to improve, 
lo. A th ng of beauty is a joy forever. 

14. Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills. V^ 

15. Evil society is the absolute death of piety. 

lb'. Fancy is a pretty dog but needs a great deal of 
i'eeding. 



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17. Employment brings enjoyment. Folly is wise 

in her own eyes. 

18. Better ask the way than to go a t ay. 

19. Joy and sorrow make to-day and t -morrow. 

20. Dun't wade where you can no! see the bottom. 

21. A bitten child is afraid of a stuffed log. 

22. Dare to do right, and wale in the light. 

23. Pride and scorn are briar and thorn. 

24. It needs much skill to wield th<> qu 11. 

25. Bad books bewitch ; good books enrich. 

26. He who works best must sometimes rest. 

27. He who is rusty is sure to b.- crusty, must; . 

28. Where argument fails, g Id rea lily avails. 

29. Intentions which die are pretensions which lie. 

30. It is the silly lasses who linger 1 nj; at looking- 

pla^ses 



1. O, what a tan Ae 1 web we weave 

When first we practice to deceivt. — Warmion. 

2. Come one, come all! this rock shall fly 
From its firm base as soon as I. — Scott. 

3. All actual heroes are essential men, 
And all men possible heroes — Leijh. 

4. Honor and shame from no condition rise, 
Act well your part, there all the honor 1 es. 



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5. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; 
Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring. 

— Pope. 

6. Auu, o te. timed, excusing of a fault 

Doth make the fault the worse by the excu e. 

— Shakespea : e. 

7. Unblemished, let me live or die unknown, 
O, grant an hone t fa»ne, or grant me none 

— ~ff t e. 

8. Fare thee wci 1 , an ' ii forever, 

Strll forever, fare thee well. — Byron. 

9. There is nothing great in earth but man 
And nothing great in man but mind. — Anon, 

10. Love rules the court, the camp, the .grove, 
And men below and saints above; 
For love is heaven, and heaven is love. 



1. Mourn not for vanished ages, 

With their great, heroic men, 
Who dwell in history's pages, 
And live in the poet's pen ; 
For the grandest times are before us, 

And the world is yet to see 
The noblest worth of this old earth 
In the men that are to be. 

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 



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One impulse from a vernal wood 
May teach you more of man, 

Of moral, evil, and of good, 
Than all the sages can. 



3. Sounds which address the ear are lost and dio 
In one short hour; rut 1ha + wHch etrihes 

the eye 
Lives long upon the mind, the faithful sight 
Engraves the knowledge with a beam of light. 



4. Thought is desp^r than all speech 

Feeling deepei than all thought ; 
Souls to souls can never teach 

What unto themselves was taught. — Cranch. 



A bounteous feast has he who eats his bread 
In sweet content and happy frame of mind; 

But he who brings care to the banquet's spread 
In spite of plenty has but poorly dined. 



O father! grant thy love div ne 
To make the mystic temples thine ! 
When wasting age and wearying strife 
Have sapped the leaning Avails of l.fe, 
When dar snes^ gathers over all. 



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And tlia last tott3ring pillars fVl, 
Take the poor dust Thy mercy w.rros, 
And mould it into heavenly forms. 

— 0. W. Holmes. 



Oar's the right to co nfort in distress ; 

The right to soothe, the r.ght t> ble s, 
The right to feed and clothe the poor, 

The right, to teach them to endure ; 
The right a happy home to mate 

In any clime, for Jesus sake; 
Ri 'hts such as these are all we crave 

Until our last — a peaceful grave. 

— Gipsy. 



8. The day is ('one and the darkness 

Falls from the wings of ni^ht, 
As a feather is wafted downward 

From an eagle in his flight 
And the night shall be filled with music 

And the cares that infest the day 
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, 

And as silently steal away. — Longfellow. 



9. But, he is gone, the free, the bold, 

The champion of his country's right ; 
His burning eye is dim and cold, 

And mute his voice of conscious might 



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Oh no! not mute ; his stirring call 
Can s-ar:le tyrants on their thrones. 

And on the hearts of nations fall 

More awl'ul than his living tones. — Prentice. 



30. Loveliest of all lovely th'ngs are they, 
On earth that soon pass away. 
The rose that hvcs its little hour 
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower, 

— Bryant. 

11. Workman of God ! lose not heart, 
But learn what God is like; 
And in tie darkest battle-field, 
Thou shalt know where to strike. 



j2. For r'ght is right, s nee God is God, 
And right the day must win; 
To doubt would be disloyalty, 
To falter would be sin — Anon. 



13. Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, 
Whene'er is spoken a no le thought 
Our hearts in glad surprise 
To higher levels rise. — Longfellow. 



>4. Thou, too, sail on, ship of State! 
Sail on, O Union strong and great I 
Humanity with all its fears, 



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With all the hopes of future years, 

Is hanging breathless on thy fate. — Longfelloic. 

15 Such beautiful, beautiful hands ! 

Though hearts were weary and sad, 
These patient hands kept toiling on 

That child. en might be glad. 
I almost weep as I look ba k 
To chil ihood's distant day, 
I think how her hands r< sted not, 
When mine were at their play. 

1(5 But eh ! b yond the shadow-land, 

Where all is bright and fair, 
I know full well those dear old haiK.s 

The palm of victory wear-- 
Where crystal streams through endhss time, 

Flow over golden sands ; 
And where the old grow young again 

I'll clasp my mother's hands. — B. G. Carter 

17. Hop"*, like the gleaming taper's light, 

Adorns, and cheers the way; 
And stili as darker grows the light 
Emits a brighter ray. — Goldsmith. 

18. I sometimes hold it half a sin 

To put in words the grief I feel; 
For words, like Nature, half reveal 



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And half conceal the self within — Tennyson. 

! 9. And the st ttely ships go on 

To their haven under the hill; 
But for the touch of a vanished hand, 
And the sound of a voice that is still ! 

— Tennyson. 

20. Courage Lr -tlicr ! do not stumble, 

Though thy path is dark as night ; 
There's a stir to guide the humble, 
Trust in God and do the right. — Madeod. 



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21. No matter what you try to do 
At home or at your school, 
Always do your wry best 

There is no butter rule. — Anon. 



If Wisdom's ways you wisely seek, 
Five .things observe with care : 

To whom you spe ik, of whom you speak 
And how and when and where. — Anon. 

23. Look for goodness, look for gladne s, 
You will meet them all the while 
If you bring a smiling visage 
To the gl -ss you meet a smile. 

— Alice Gary. 



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24. If fortune with a smiling face, 

Strevs roses on the vzy 
Wl en hould \ye stop to pick them up ? 

To-d iy, my friend, to-day. 
But should she frown with face of: care, 

And talk of coming sorrow, 
When thall we grieve, if grieve me must? 

To-morrow, friend, to-morrow. — Anon. 

25. Beautiful eyes are those that show, 

L ke crystal janes where hearth-fires glow, 
Beautiful thoughts that burn below. 
Beautiful hands are those that do 
Work that is earnest, brave, and true, 
Moments by moments, the long day through. 

— Allen. 

26. Suppose your task, my little man, 

Is very hard to get; 
Will it make it any easier 

For you to sit and fret? 
And wouldn't it be wiser, 

Than waiting like a dunce, 
To go to work in earnest 

And learn the thing at once ?— Phoebe Cary. 



'11. 



Half of our Kuman ills 
Have a color rosy ; 



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Winter brings the chills — 

But its fires are cozy ! 
Let the winds of winter blow ! 

There are daisies 'neath the snow. 



28. Will ever the edict be uttered, O man, 

"Thus far and no farther' 5 reach if y^pu can? 
Nay, the broad r the grasp of the intellect fine 
The farther recede s the horizon's line. 

— Humboldt 



29. Beware ! such words may once be said, 
Where shame and fear unite ; 
But, spoken twice, they mark instead, 
A sin against the light. — C. Newman. 



30. There's a crown for little children, 
Above the bright blue eky, 
And all who look for Jesus 
Shall wear it by and by; 



31. A crown of brightest glory, 

Which he Will then bestow 
On all who've found his favor, 
And love his name below. — Anon. 



32, Two souls with but a single thought, 
Two hearts that beat as one. 



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33. Truth, crushed to earth shall rise again, 
The eternal years of Go I are hers; 
But error, wounded, writhes in pun, 
Ani dies amonj its wors ;ipjrs. — BrymU 



34. He who checks his child with terror, 

Stops its play, and stills its song, 
Not alone commits an error, 
But a grievous moral wrong. 

35. Give it play and never fear it; 
. Active life is no defect ; 
Never, never break its spirit, 

Curb it only to direct. 

36. Would you stop the flowing river, 

Thinking it would cease to flow? 
Onward must ii flow forever ; 
Better teach it where to go. — Anon. 



37 Heights by great men reached and kept, 
Were not attained by sudden flight, 
But they, while their companions slept, 
Were toiling upward in the night. 

— Longfellow, 



38. Teach me to feel another's woe, 
To hide the fault I see*: 
That mercy I to others show, 
That mercy show to me. — Pope. 



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THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. 

1. Under a spreading chestnut tree 

The village smithy stands ; 
The smith, a mighty man is he, 

With large a id s newy hands ; 
And the muscles of his brawy aim? 

Are strong as ire n bands. 

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2. Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, 

Onward through life he goes; 
Each morning sees some task begun, 

Each evening sees it close ; 
Something attempted, something dene, 

Has earned a night's repose. 

3. Thanhs, thanks, to thee, my worthy friend, 

For the lesson thou hast taught: 
Thus at the flaming forge of life 

Our fortunes must be wrought; 

Thus on its sounding anvil shaped 

Each burning deed and thought. 

— Longfellow. 



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IN WV CEIfE^JFITHi 0BSEI^Y7™^¥, 

By George D, Free. 

1. Is our sun in his matchless splendor, 

Revolving on in his glorious might 

With the worlds which he is keeping, 

And amid all their dazzling light? 

2 Has this Solar System been moving ^ 
In a c"rcle incomprehensibly vast, 
And has made but a little curve in the distance, 
In a quadrillion of years in the past? 

3. When mankind was created, " J * 

Away back in that distant day; 
Where it was in the starry regions, 
Do you say it's billions of miles away?" 

4 Are there any other such solar systems, 

Which with our's have been keeping pace; 
Encircling a much larger system, 

That, too, whirling in immensity's space? 

5. Are there millions of those luminons systems, 
Directing others in their rapid sway, 
With brilliant suns and lights resplendent 
Are they stars of the bright Milky Way ? 



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6. Explain the cause of this protraction 

With that bright land of the ether sea. 
There must be a grand central attraction 
Who can tell what that center may be ? 

7. if everything is rapidly whirling, 

In a circle through the great unknown; 
Then, it is possible, that we are revolving, 
Around the beautiful, great, white throne, 

8. Where the King in His unselfish glory, 

Views the whole of His labor sublime, 
A ad not a star loses its bright story, 
Not even for a moment of time. 

9. The million of systems whirling — a diadem, 

Round each other in unbounded space; 
While the great Architect who planned them, 
Has kept every one still in its place. 

10. The heavens His glory have thundered, 

The firmament His power proclaims; 
The bright starry host He has numbered, 
And, "He calleth them all by their names.'' 

11. Can it be when life is done, £home, 

And we are transformed in the new Eden 
We shall see those worlds as God views them, 
And know all in the ages to come ? 



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THE RAINY DAY. 

1 • The day is col 1, and dark, and dreary • 
It rains, and the wind is never weary- 
T,e vine still clings to the mouldering wall 
but at every gust the dead leaves fall," 
And the day is dirk and dreary. 

2. My life is c ,M, and chirk, and dreary 
it rains Ad !he wind is never weary 

My th.rahti.ti 1 cling to the moul lering Pas^ 
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast 
And the days are dark and dreary. 

3. Ee still , a d heart ! and cease repining- 
Behind the clouds is the sun still shin'i, g- 
H'J fate is the common fate of all; 

Into each life some rain must fall,' 
Some days must be dark and dreary. 

— Longfellow. 

A SMALL SWEET WAY. 

1. There's never a rose in all the world 

Bat makes-some green spray sw e'er • 
There's never a wind in all the ?ky 
But makes some b.rd wing fleeter. 
2. There's never a star but brings to heaven 
bo ne silver radiance tender; 



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And never a rosy cloud but helps 
To crown the sunset splendor. 

3. No robin but may thrill some heart. 
His dawnlight gladnees voicing ; 
God gives us all some small sweet way 
To set the world rejoicing. — Anon. 



A DIME, f , 

1. Much has been said by poets wise 

About the sorrowing heart, 
When friends are called with other friends 
To sadly, sidly pait! 

2. Tis sad to part with those we love, 

Even for a brief, short time ; 
But sadder still the p rting with 
A boy and his last dime. 



How dreary would the meadow be 
In the pleasant summer light, 

Suppose there wasn't a bird to sing, 
And suppose the grass was white. 

• — Alice Cani . 



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A FSALM OF LIFE. 

1. Tell me not in mournful numbers, 

Life is an empty dream ! 
For the soul is dead that slumbers, - 
And things are not what they seem. 

2. Life is r. al ! Life is earnest! 

And the grave is not its goal ; 
Dust th)u art, to dust retumest, 

Was not spoken of the soul. 
3 Not enjoyment, not sorrow, 

Is our destined end or way; 
But to act that each to-morrow 

Finds us farther than to-day. 

4. Ari is long, and time is fleeting, 

And our hearts, though stoat and brave, 
Still, like muffl.d drums, are beating 
-Funeral marches to the grave. 

5. In the world's broad field of ] ..tie, 

J z the bivouac of Life, 
Bejiot like dumb, driven cattle ! 
-Be a hero in the strife ! 

6. Trust ao future, howe'er peasant ! 

Let the dead Past bury its dead ! 
Act— act in the living Present! 
Heart wiihin, and God o'erhead \ 



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7. Lives of great men all remind us 

We c^n rA£tiis our lives sub ime, 
And, departing, leave belied us 
Footprints on the s*nds of time; 

8. Footprints, that perhaps another, 

Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, 
Seeing shall take heart again. 

9. Let us then be up aid doing, 

With a heart for any fate ; 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 

Learn to labor and to w tit.— Longfellow. 



IN SCHOOL DAYS. 

1. He saw her lift her eyes ; he felt 

The soft hand's light caressing, 
And heard the tremble of her vo.ce, 
As if a fault confessing. 

2. 'Tin sorry that I spelt the word — 

I hate to go above yon, 
Because," the brown eyes lower r ell, — 
'Because, you see I love you/' 

3. Still memory to a gray-haired man 

That sweet child-face is showing. 
Dear girl ! the grasses on her grave 
Have forty years been growing ! 



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H> lives to learn in life's hard school, 

How few who pa^s above liim 
Lament their triumph and his loss, 

Like her — because they love him. 

— Whit tier. 



THE ETERNAL GOODNESS. 

1. I long lor household voices gone, 

For vanished smiles I long, 
B it God has led my dear ones on, 
And he can do no wrong. 

2. And so beside the Silent Sea 

I wait the muffled oar ; 
No harm from Him can come to mo 
On ocean or on shore. 

3. I know not where His islands lift, 

Their fronded palms in air; 
I on y know I can not drift 
Beyond His love and care. — Whittier. 



THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS, 

1 . There is a Reaper, whose name is De ith, 
And with his sickle keen, 
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath 
And the flowers that grow between. 



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2. "Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he; 

Have naught but the bearded grain ? 
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me 
I will give them all back again." 

3. He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, 

He kissed their drooping leaves; 
It was for the Lord of Paradise 
Hd bound them in his sheaves. 

4. "My Lord has need of these flowrets gay," 

The Reaper said, and smi'e 1 ; 
"Dear tokens of the earth are they, 
Where he was once a child. 

•">. They shall all bloom in fields of light, 
Transplanted by my care, 
And saints, upon their garments white, 
These sacie4 blossoms wear." 

6 And the nio'lier gave, in tears and pain, 
The flowers she most did love ; 
She knew she should find them all agi»iu 
In the fields of light above. 

7. 0, jiot in cruelty not 'n wrath, 
The Keaper came that day; 
Twas an angel visited the green earth, 
And took the flowers away. — Longfellow. 



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FOR YOU. 

1 . I have some good ajivice for you, 

My merry little man. 
Tis this : Where'er your lot is cast, 

do the best you can ! 
And fin I the good in everything, 

No m, tter what or where; 
And don't be always looking for 

The hardest thing to bear. 

2. O do not stand with idle hands, 

And wait for something grand, 
Whil» precious moments slip away 

Like grains of shin'ng sand ! 
But do the duty nearest you, 

And do it fa thfully, 
For >t< pp'rg stones to greater things 

These little deeds shall be. 

3. In this big world of ours my boy, 

There's work for all to do; 
Just measure by the Golden Rule 

That which is set for >ou ; 
And try it with the square of truth. 

And with the line of right; 
In every act and thought of yours 

O keep your honor bright.- --Companion. 



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The heart that i> foonest awake to the flowers, 
Is always fifot to be t ujhed by the thoriic 

— Moor 



WOMEN. 

The bravest battle that ever was fought! 

Shall I tell you where and when ? 
Oa the maps of the world you will find it not, 

'Twas fought by the mothers of men. 

Nay, not with can o \, or battle-shot, 
With sword, « r noble pen; # 

Nay, not with el quent word or thought, 
From mouths o'i won lerful men. 

But deep in a wil el-ap woman's he\rt — 

0. men that would not yield, 
But bravely, dlently bore her part — 

Lo ! (here is that bitile-field ! 

No marshaling troop, no bivouac song, 

No banner to gleam and wave; 
Bat oh ! these battles they last so long — 

From babyhoo I to the grave. 

Yet, f.iithf-ul still as a bridge of stars, 
She fights in her walled up town — 

Fights on and on, in the endless wars, 
Then silent, unseen — goes down. 



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O ye with banners and battle-phot, 
And soldiers to shout and praise 
I tell you the kingliest victories fought 
Are fought in these si ent ways. 

Oh, spotless woman in a world of shame, 

With splendid and silent scorn, 
Go back to God as white as you came, 
The kingiiest warrior born ! 

— Joaquin Miller. 



OBJECTS OF LIFE. 

1. I live for those who love me, 

For those I know are true, 
For the heaven that smiles above mo, 

And awaits my spirit true too; 
For all human ties that bind me, 
For the task by God assigned me, 
For the bright hopes left behind me, 

And the good that I can do. 

2. I live to learn their story 

Who've suffered for my sake, 
To emulate their glory, 

And follow in their wake ; 
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages, 
The noble of all ages, 



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Whose deeds crowd history's pages, 
And Time's great volume make. 

3. I live to hail that season 

By gifted minds foretold, 
When man shall live by reason 

And not alone by gold ; 
When mf; to man united, 
And every wrong thing righted, 
The whole world shall be lighted 
As Eden was of old. 

I live to hold communion 

With all that is divine, 
To feel there is a union 

'Twixt nature's heart and mine; 
To profit by affliction, 
Reap truths from fields of fiction, 
Grow wiser from conviction 

And fulfill each grand design. 

5. I live for those who love me 

For those who know me true, 
^ For the heaven that smiles above mo 
And awaits my spirit to> : 
For the wrong that n33ds resistance, 
For the ciuse that tacks assistance, 
For the future ia ths ibtaaco, 
An J the goo J thai; 1 cj*a .b. 



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LEARN TO DO WELL. 

1. My mother, one day v hen 1 v a* a child, 

And was given a tusk to do, — 
A tis-k that I felt like slighting so great 

Was my haste to s e my way through, — 
Examined my work ti en g ve me a look 

That brought the w; rm blood to my free, 
"My ehifcl she said, 'You mmtkarn to dowel , 

V\ ith no slighting in any case." 
2 Reuiembsr that work which is partly done 

Will have to be done ava : n, 
So your saving is naught when you do so my 
child, 

11 o i h it may seem a saving then." 
My moth, r's words were not hai-tfh nor cross 

Her manner w s gentle and kind, 
But whe: ever I Ice; lii*e sli.htin ■ a task, 

'those w r s come back to my mind. 
My li eha< been bcit-r for them, I know. 

And my mot ier, though sleepi g now, 
Still casts o'er my life an influence b,i dit 

r or i ma ie a so emn vow 
To try to mike my life just what 

1 Know she would have it be, 
. To ham to do what 1 h ive to do w 11, 

That no failur s 1 may see. 

—Katie Didd. 



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SPEAK GENTLY. 

1. Speak gent y — it is bett.T far 

To rule by love than iear ; 
Speak gently — let 10 harsh words mar 
The good we m'ght do here. 

2. S]) ak gently- -love do-h wMs: e low 

The \ows that true hearts b"nd, 
And gently friendship's ac eit: fbw, 
/ faction's voice is kind. 

3. Sp ak g(ntly to the little <h hi, 

Its love be sure to ?ain; 
Teac'i it in ac ents soft and m'ld, 
It may not long remain. 

4. Speak gently to the aged one, 

G i ve not the care worn h< art, 
The san 's of life are n arly run — 
Let such in peace depart. 

5. Sp^ak gently to the erring — know 

They may hive toiled in vain ; 
Perhaps unkindness made them so ; 
Oh ! win them back ag tin. 

G. Speak gently to the young, for they 
Will have enough to bear, 
Pass through this life as best they may, 
'Tis full of anxious care. 



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7. Speak gently, k"r.d!y to tf e po r, 
Let no liar-h rone be he rJ; 
They have enough they \uvM endure 

Without an unkind word, 

8. Speak ge.itly — 11^ who iravs Ris life 

To bend mans st lbborn will. 
When elements were in fierce strife 
Said to then, K Peacj, be still ! ? 

9. Sp?ak gently — 'tis a little thing 

Dropped in the heart's deep well, 

The good the joy which it may bring 

Eternity shall tell. — David Bales. 

THE BABEFOOT BOY, 

Blessings on thee, little man, 
Bare'oot boy, with cheek of tan ! 
With thy turned-up pantaloons, 
And the merry whs led tunes; 
With thy red lip, redder s ill 
Kissed by strawberries < n the hill. 
With the sunshine on thy face, 
through thy torn brim's jaunty grace; 
From my heart I give thee joy, — 
I was OLce a barefoot boy ! 
Prince thou art — the grown up man, 
Only is republican. 



32 Hare Gems. 

Let the mi'lion-rlollarel rile! 
Barefoot lrud;i*ig at his si e, 

hou hast more than he can buy 
Li the rca-h of ear and eye, — 
Outward sun-hine, inward joy ; 
Blessings on th« e, 'barefoot boy ! 
0, for boyhood's painless \ lay, 
Sleep that wakes in laughing oay, 
Health that mocks the d dor's rules, 
Knowl dge never learned of schools. 
Of the wild-bees morning c'as% 
Of the wild-flowers time and place, 
Flight of fowl and habitude 
Of the tenants of the wood ; 
How the to.toi.se bears his shell. 
How the woodchuck digs his c.ll. 
And the ground-mole sinks his well; 
How the r bin feeds her young, 
How the oriole's nest is hung, 
Where the whitest lilies blow, 
Where the freshe. t berries grow. 
Where t' e groundnut trails its vine, 
Where the woodgrape's clusters shine, 
Of the black wasp3 cunning way, 
Mason of h's walls of clay. 
And the architectural plans, 
Of gray hornet artisans ! — 



Rare Gems. 33 

For eschewing books and tasks, 
Nature answers all he asks; 
Face to face with her he talks, 
Hand in hand with her he walks, 
Part and parcel of her joy, — 
Blessings on thee, barefoot boy ! 

John Greenleaf Whittier. 



BE KIND TO MOTHER. 

1. Be kind to your mother, always, 

It may not be long she will stay ; 
Think of the empty home and heart, 

When mother goes away; 
So always be kind and pleasant, 

And then you may never know 
What it is to live without her, 

Blaming yourself that 'tis so. 

2. You are growing away from your mother, 

You say she's old fasioned and plain, 
I hope she has not loved you 

So many years, in vain. 
What would you do without mother? 

Then care for her while you may : 
You can not know how you hurt her 

By the thoughtless things you say. 



34 Bare Gems. * 

3. She is working and slaving ever, 

Toiling for you and yours. 
Do not be selfish and blinded, 

And be idle all these hours : 
Save her every step you can, 

Work with her all the day. 
When you see the happy light in her eyes 

You will be glad that you may. 

4. Yet her heart to you is fa'thful, 

A mother's love ne'er iies, 
Though selfish and ungrateful, - 

You are noble in her eyes. 
A man may seem hard and wicked, 

To the world who knows him best, 
But his mother's faith goes with him, 

She loves him to the last. 

5. You know you love your mother, 

You are angry if one says nay, 
But with your words you wound her, 

So many times each eay ; 
But be gentle with the mother 

It may not be long she will stay — 
Think of the empty borne and heart, 

When the mother goes away. 



Rare Gems. 35 > 

HOME. 

1. Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home, 
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, 
Which seek through the world is ne'er met 

with elsewhere. 

2. To thee I'll return, overburdened with care ; 

The heart's dearest solace will smile on me there. 
No more from that cottage again will I roam ; 
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. 

— Payne. 

3. Home's not merely roof and room, 

Home needs something to endear it ; 
Home is where the heart can bloom, 

Where there is some kind heart to cheer it. 
What is home with none to meet, 

None to welcome, none to geet us? 
Home is sweet, and only sweet, 

Where there's one we love to meet us, 

4. Sweet is the hour that brings us home, 

Where all will spring to meet us, 
Whose hands are striving as we come 
To be the first to greet us. 

5. A man can build a mansion 

And furnish it throughout ; 



36 Rare Gems* 

A man can build a palace, 

With lofty walls and stout; 
A man can build a temple, 

With high and spacious dome ; 
But no man in the world can build 

That precious thing called home. 

6. It is the happy faculty 

Of women far and wide, 
. To turn a cot or palace 

Into something else beside — 
Where brothers, sons and husbands, tir d, 

With willing footsteps come; 
A place of rest, where love abounds, 
A perfect kingdom — Home. 

"THEY SAY." 

1. The subject of my speech is one 

We hrar of every day — 
'Tis simply ad about the fear 
We have of what "they say." 

2. How happy all of u* could be, 

If — as we go our way — 
We did not stop to think and care 
So much ,'or what u they say." 

3. We never dress to go outside, 

To church, to ball, or play, 



Bar -, Gems. 

But everything we wear or do 
Is ruled by what 'they say." 

4 Half o r the struggles we each make 

To keep up a d splay, 
M ght be avoided, were it not 
For dread of what u they say." 

5 Tie half of those who leave their homes 

For Long Branch and Cape May 
Would never go, if it were not 
For fear of what "they say." 

8. One reason why I'm now so scared 
(Pardon the weakness, pray !) 
Is that I'm thinking all the while, 
"Of me what will 'they say'V 
7. But so 'twill be, I judge, as long 
As on he earth folks stay— 
There'll always be, with wise and fools/ 
That dread of what "they say." 



THS AGENCY- BUSINESS. 

At the early break of a Summer's dawn, 
When liamotids of dew bespangled the lawn 
And the birds were chirruping o'er hill and dell ; 
An agent set out with books to sell, 



38 Rare Gems. 

2. He thought of the wife in a far off land, 
Where the toilers were many, where hand to 

hand, 
He had struggled for years for home and bread 
He thought of Irs children, his manly heart 

bled. 

3. Away from the starving that round him had 

crowded 
Far from the anxiety that ever had shrouded, 
He sought out his buye/s where e'er he mi r] t 

pass: 
With truth-teliiag speech : with steady canvass. 

4. There were homes in this land, not filled with 

books, 
The children were ignorant, in acts and looks. 
There were new things arising that nil should 

know; 
But there was no agent around to tell them so. 

5 And so as he walked on from one to another, 
Some gruffly re] elled, some kind as a brother, 
He gathered the knowledge that experience 

can ; 
That succeeding in business is knowing your 

man. 

f>. And all the while the house on the hill 



Hare Gems. 39 

In a far off land, by imdominitable will, 
Was rising before him ; a paid-up home ; 
A haven of rest when he need not roam. 

7. The days went by and the books were sold, 

The farmers were uiser, the agent had gold, 
And he had something better than when he be- 
gan, 
He knew how to talk and he knew his man. 

8. We follow the agent in years that have come, 
Since he first went out on the rord to drum. 
We find him reliant, to failure unknown : 
The mind and the body and the purse have 

grown. 

9. And the house on the hill, a palace indeed, 
The sales ol hi bo >ks had purchased the deed. 
And the book agent's mind had mastered his 

trade ; 
With every little difficulty in the long up grade. 
10. And a reward comes to all who step boldly out, 
And work for the summit in spite of the doubt, 
The timid regret daily what might have been 
But the agent regrets nothing, he's one of the 

MEN. 

— Jos i ah Gross. 



40 Rare Gems. 

THE JOLLY OLD PEDAGOGUE. 

1. 'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, 

Tall and slender, and sallow and dry. 
His form was bent, and gait was slow, 
His long, th'n hair was as white as snow; 

But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye; 
And he sang every night, as he went to bed, 

"Let us be happy down here below ; 
The living should live, though the dead be 
dead," 

Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago. 

2. He taught his scholars the rule of three, 

Writing, and reading, and history, too ; 
He took the little ones upon his knee, 
For a kind old heart in his breast had he, 

And the wants of the littlest child he knew, 
< k Learn while you're young," he often said ; 

"There's much to enjoy, down here below; 
Life for the living, and rest for the dead ! 

Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago. 

3. With the stupidest boys he was kind and cool, 
Speaking only in gentlest tones; 
The rod was hardly known in his school: 
Whipping, to him was a barbarous rule, 

And too hard work for his poor oM bones; 
Besides, it was painful be sometimes said. 



Rare Gems. 41 

"We should make life pleasant, dovn hen 
below : 
Thj living need charity more than the dead," 
Said the jolly, old pedagogue, long ago. 

L lie lived in the house by the hawthorn lai.c, 

With roses and woodbine ov.r the door. 
His rooms were quiet and neat and plain ; 
Bat a spirit of comfort there held reign, 

And made him forget he was old and p ©r. 
"1 need sj little," he often said ; 

"And my friends and relatives here below 
Won't litigate over me when I am dead," 

Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago. 

5. II smoked his pipe in the balmy air, 

Every nijht, when the sun went down, 
While the so t Wind played in his silvery hair, 
L aving his tenderest kisses there, 

Oj the jo ly old pedagogue's jolly old crown 
And feeling the kisses, he smiled and said, — 

4i Tis a glorious world, down here below : 
Why wait for happiness till we are dead?" 

Sai 1 the jolly old pedago ue, long ago. 

II ? sat at his door one midsummer night, 

After the sun had sunk in the west : 
And t ie lingering beams of golden light 
Made his kindly old face look wajm and bright. 



42 Rare Gems. 

While the odorous night- wind whimpered, 
"Rest!" 
Gently, gently, he bowed his head. 

Tnere were angels waiting for him, I know : 
He was sure of happne^s, living or d ad, 
This jolly old pedagogue, long a ;o ! 

— George Arnold. 



THE DEAD CONFEDERACY. 

P;ile, stark and cold- she lies in utt r silence, 

No more to rise up from that deathly swoon 
To woeping states that whisp3r in great anguish, 
6k Dead, dead saloon." 

Ah ! mourn for her with tender love and pity, 
Ye men that strove to lengthen out her years, 
A little child, grown old and gray with sorrow. 
Demands your tears. 

A little child with blood upon her ringlets, 

A faded banner wrapping her tired arm?, 
Bruised fret that faltered in the sweet reveal- 
ing 

Of freedom's charms. 

Hushed into mute and reverent emotion, 
The |»e pie pass beneath the heavy skies, 



Rare Gems. 43 

Knowing not to-day, nor yet upon the morrow, 
Will she rise. 

5. Arise t > spread her banner in rejoicing, 

To beckon honor from the w itng years, 
Who hints of faults, with every stain upon lur 
Wash^l out in tears? 

G. The faulty idol of a faulty people, 

Who loved her better that her faults were 
theirs, 
Who see her deaf, blind, dead to all perfection 
The future bears. 

7. As dead as the se who sought to be her armour, 

Who held their hearts as shields 'twixt her 
and death, 
And died to cherish into fuller being 
The infant breath. 

8. Strong hearts that i j the rus'i and roar of battle, 

P»>ure 1 out tluir noble blood like holy wine, 
\\ as.ing its wealth and richness on a broken 
And blasted shrine. 

9. A bl :sted shrine, yet even in its blighting 

Crowned with the 1 omage of a million hearts, 
Y* hose burning tears poured out the last liba- 
tion 

That love imparts, 



44 Bare Gems. 

10. A faded hope, yet fairer in ils fading 

Than victory's temples reared above the dead, 
And sweeter — blasted, faded, broken — than 
rich incei-S) 

For conquests shed. 

11. Pale, pale she lies ; the autumn corneth gently 

And clasps its crimson fingers 'round her 
feet, 
And throws a golden spell upon the forest, 
As is moet meet. 

12. It is most meet that one who died in childhood, 

Who sm ljd up n us fr< m the purple west, 
Should take, amid the crim 01 and the golden, 
Her final rest. 

13. She lieth cold; the spirit of the winter 

Hushes the careless river at her side, 
'Tis well, we think, that thus should sleep in 
silence 

A people's prde. 

14. She lieth still; we dare not sing her rcqu : em, 

The wes'ern star has "a led out of sight, 
Like her who was the idol of our worship, 
Leaving us night. 

— F. Borland. 



Ilare Gems. 45 

DEATH. 

"There is no death! What seems so is trans- 
ition-: 
Th's life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the li'e elysian, 
Whose p >rlal we call death."— Longfellow* 

2. "Bright tilings never d.'e, 

Even though they fade ; 
Beauty and minstrelsy 

Deathless were made." 
"There is no death in this wide world, 

But one eternal scene of change; 
The flag of life is never f'uried, 

It only taketh wider ran^e." 



THE OLD SCHOOL INHIBITIONS. 

0\ the old school exhibitions, will they ever come 

again, 
With the good, old fashion' d speaking from the girls 

and boys so plain? 
Will we ever hear old ' lser" with its rapid roll and 

sweep, 
And -Pilot 'tis a fearful night ; there's danger on 

the deep?" 



46 Rare Gems. 

Sweet Mary doesn't raise her Iambs like Mary did of 

old; 
Their fleece is not "as white as snow" — they're wan- 
dering from the fold ; 
The boy upon "the burning deck" is not one half i s 

fine; 
He was not "born at Bingen, at Bin?;en on the 

Rhine." 
The girls don't speak in calico, the boys in cotton 

jeans ; 
They've ch nged the old-time dresses 'long with the 

old-time scenes ; 
They smile and speak in ancient Greek; in bro.id- 

cloth.and in lace; 
And you can't halt' see the speaker for the collar 

'round the face ! 
Oh, the old school exhibition ! It is gone forever 

more ; 
The old scho >l-house is deserted and the grass has 

choked the door, 
And the wind sweeps 'round the gables with a low 

and mourn lul whine. 
For the old boys "born at B ngen, at Bingen on the 

Rhine !" 






R:re Gems. 47 



THE OLD HOME. 

1. Can tli e flower forget the sun 
That warms it day by day? 
Or the mariner the star 
That guides him on his way? 

2» Can Memory's precious urn 
Part with its cherished store? 
Or Love's flame cease to bum 
When shadows stretch before? 

3. Though the sun is fallen low, 

And life's journey soon will cense, 
Bii 1 1 hear home's -streamlet flow 
And see that bower of peace. 



Fairer than palm-tress with graceful plumes 
Is the far away home with its sunny rooms ; 
The swallows that under the brown eaves nest 
Than the brds that flicker with jewelled breast. 



With the same light foot, and childish glee 
I'd chase the butterfly over the lea; 
Thm unde the shadow of mossy steep, 
Where meadow ferns wave I'd fall asleep! 

—Griffith. 



48 Hare Gems. 

. TRUTH. 

Truth 's the end we are seeking ; 

Work is the means we employ ; 
Duty's ihe path that leads onward 

To fathomless depths of joy. 

— B. A. Phigree. 

HAVE YCU BEEN TO THE WORLD'S FAIR? 

1. Have you been to. Chicago to see the World's 

Fair ? 
Is a qucs ion heard every day. 
Has the Ferris Wheel li ted \ ou high in ihe air 
Or have }ou btrolled down the Midway? 

2. Have you seen the Turkish Nautch dancing, 

Ridden a camel in a street in Cairo ? 
Have you seen the lions and tigers prancing 
In Ikckenback's wonderful animal sLow? 

3. IL.ve you paced the aisles of the Liberal Arts? 

And gazed on all the wonders there 
That came over the sea from foreign marts 
For exhibition at this great Fair? 

4. Have you visited the grounds on illumination 

night 
And watched the lighted fountains play, 
And seen on a building high the search light 
Casting its beams tLwn the Midway? 



Rare Gems 49 

5. ILiveyou s'ood in the mi , s aid mning 

And looked on th ,s, preci nssto .esaad ores 
>\ illiout a feeling of repining 
'I ait ui] before you was not \ oura? 

5. Have you be. n in the transportation, 

Seen the d.ff rei t m.xlts trad? 
Js n t this a wondrotn creation, 
And at all these th ng< ,! you marvel? 

6. Di 1 ever y« u t i ,k as you looked on all 

Has cosmoH tan city, with its beauties re- 
vealed. 
With its spires and towers and buildinga tall, 
How like a prisoner condemned its fate was 
sealed? 

7. How the years of thought, planing and design- 

>ng, 
And the work of months would fade 
Ll f e a ™y of sun in a dark place shining 
Into dark and dismal shade. 

• — Tommy Trimmers. 

HOME. 

I Though we may not change the cotfcge 
For a mansion tall and grand, 
Or exchange the little grass spot 
For a boundless stretch of land ; 



Rare Gems. 

Yet there's something brighter, dearer, 
Than the wealth we thus command. 

Though we have no means to purchase 

Costly pictures rich and rare ; 
Though we have no silken hanging 

For the walls so cold and bare, 
We can hang them o'er with garl inds, 

For do .vers blossom everywhere. 

We c :,n make home v^Ty cheerful 

It' t!>e ri o lri course je begin ; 
We can make its in mites happy 

And iheir tru st blexings win ; 
It' we ma've a small room brighter 

It will let the sunshine in. 

We can gather 'round the fireside 
When the evening hourc are long; 

We can blend the heartj and voices 
In a happy social song ; 

We can help an erring brother, 

Lead him from the p^th of wrong. — Anon. 



The heart has many passages 

Through which the feelings roam, 

But its middle niAe is sacred 
To the old, old home. — Anon. 



Rare Gems. 51 



Foil ten ( ss is to do and say 

The kindest tl ing in the kindest way. 

Before you epeuk an angry word, count ten; 
Then, if still you angry be, c< unt again e 

Do your best, ycur very best, 
And do it every day, 
Little boys and little girls, 
That is the wisest way. 

Hearts, like doors, can ope with ease, 
To very, very little kejs, 
And don't forget that they are these, 
4 T thark you, sir/' and "If you please." 

Kind words are little sunbeams, 
That sparkle as they fall, 
And loving smiles are sunbeams, 
A light of joy to all. . 

Kind hearts are the gardens 
Kind thoughts are the roots, 
Kind words are the blossoms, 
Kind deeds are the fruits. 



Speak the truth and speak it ever, 
Cost it what it will. 



52 



Rare Gems. 



He who hides the wrong I e did 
Does the wrong thiner still. 

To do to < t^ers as I would 

That they should do to me 

Will make me honest, kind and good, 

As children ought to be. 

When mother says "Do this" or "tkat" 
Don't say "what for" or "why" 
But let her hear your gentle voice 
S?y "Mother dear, I'll try," 

Let us seek to scatter, 
Let us seek to sow, 
Little deeds of kindness 
Ever^ where we go. 




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